Search crews with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources are scheduled to return to the Bloede Dam in Patapsco Valley State Park this morning to resume a search for a swimmer who went missing Sunday night, according to a DNR spokesman.

Fire spokesman Marc Fisher said the swimmer is a Hispanic male but did not immediately provide an age. The investigation has been turned over to Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police.

Sgt. Brian Albert, a DNR spokesman, said the search will resume at 9 a.m. Monday.

Fisher said the swimmer went through one of the chutes of the historic hydroelectric dam and had not been seen since.

The Department of Natural Resources, which owns the dam, has targeted it for potential demolition, saying it is a human safety hazard and its removal could be a boon to wildlife. DNR officials said last year that several people have died at the dam in the past two decades.

After nearly six months of back-and-forth, a bill creating a set of nutritional guidelines for the food and drink sold in Howard County government vending machines was voted, for a final time, into law today.

The devil is in the details, goes the old saw, and there's nothing more bedeviling to the state of Maryland with details at present than the stormwater management fee, also called by some "the rain tax." We are now in the third year of acrimony and confusion over this measure, which the General...

The results of a poll on nutritional standards in Howard County were released the same week the County Council is scheduled to vote on whether to override the county executive's veto of the bill earlier this month.

Climbers with chain saws cut down what was believed to be one of the oldest trees in Maryland at Belmont Manor and Historic Park in Elkridge on Monday, as limbs and sections of the trunk lowered by cranes lay scattered below.